Pojoaque Pueblo Services is the technical services division of a corporation wholly owned by the Pueblo of Pojoaque. Unlike a corporation owned by one or more individuals, Pojoaque Pueblo Services is owned by a sovereign nation that has been in existence for many hundreds of years.

We have many alliance partners which have teamed with us to provide quality service to our mutual customers. Members of our team have associated themselves with Pojoaque Pueblo Services and the Pueblo of Pojoaque specifically because the Pojoaque's are one of the most business oriented Indian tribes in existence.

Harvard University's Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development at the University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, in conjunction with the Ford Foundation, established the Honoring Nations 2000 award to identify, celebrate, and share outstanding examples of governance among American Indian Nations. The Pojoaque Pueblo was one of eight awardees.

Pojoaque Pueblo Services was established expressly to provide the Government with an extraordinarily easy way to procure quality technical services. For that reason, Pojoaque Pueblo Services has established itself as a Tribally owned 8(a) enterprise. Government contracting offices have quotas for awarding business to entities in each of these three categories. Doing business with Pojoaque Pueblo Services provides the contracting office with credit in all three categories simultaneously.

The SBA 8(a) Program
8(a) firms owned by native American tribes, such as the Pojoaque Pueblo, may receive sole source contracts regardless of the dollar amount. They are not subject to the $4 million limitation on sole source contracts (13CFR124.506(b)). Sole source procurements to a tribally-owned 8(a) company may not be protested, because there is no injured party (13CFR124.517(a)).

Congress provided this unique opportunity because it recognized that tribes have a large responsibility of trying to pull their entire tribal membership up from poverty levels and need larger contracts to be able to do so. Indian reservations suffer from some of the worst poverty in this country, with unemployment levels in excess of 60%. The tribal government has the primary responsibility for promoting economic development. On the premise that it is both appropriate and necessary to use the Federal government’s massive procurement activity to help jump-start reservation economies, Congress has given tribes unique rights in the Federal procurement process. The Pueblo of Pojoaque developed Pojoaque Pueblo Service Corporation to pursue Federal procurements and contribute to their economy.